Interesting about Joomla! CMS

This week the site alledia.com had a competition of answers to a question “What’s the easiest way to tell Google what’s new on your Joomla! site?“. As a prize the ebook “Joomla SEO book” (the price $37) acted.

Funnily, but I became the winner of this competition. It is funnily, because I have responded, that a way which allows making it quickly, now is not realized in Joomla (even as extension).

My answer was such: (more…)

Ping 1.0.0 is a component for pinging xml-rpc updating services (such as rpc.weblogs.com or rpc.technorati.com). To ping just select “Component - Ping - Ping” at the backend. You can edit list of rpc servers which to ping. (more…)

In this post I’ll describe some ways, which will allow testing the pda version of a site on usual computer.

Opera gives the good tool for testing, choose in menu View > Small Screen (Shift+F11) to see page in a display mode close to mobile devices.

Other way consists in use of Firefox and Web Developer extension. It allows to display page how it will be displayed on a handheld computer. Also for Firefox there is User Agent Switcher plugin. (more…)

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Version 2.1.2 of a mambot is released:

• Working with the utf-8 codepage is fixed.
• The option to change gzip compression for a pda is added.

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This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Changes in the new version:

• Now there is no division into “pda-bot” and “pda-subdomain-bot”. All is set up within the framework of one plugin.
• It is possible to remove optionally pictures (img) and others tags (iframe, object, applet, embed. script) which can seem to you “superfluous” in the version for a pda.
• It is possible to set a name of a subdomain (not necessarily pda.*).

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Tags: joomla, module, popular of late

Today Roman Beranek has offered small improvement of the module, allowing to show tooltips with a number of hits the article has. I have slightly completed his idea and I call your attention to version 1.1.1 of the “Popular of late”.

Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

I suggest testing version 2.0beta of a pda-mambot and pda-subdomain-mambot (for previous version see “PDA-version of Joomla’s site” and “The PDA-version of a site as a subdomain“).

Capabilities:
1. To appoint for the pda-version different “main” page (homepage).
2. Set up display of a template:
- There are 6 positions in template
- It is possible to change names of positions from mambot settings
- To output pathway or not (or to don’t output only on “main” page)
- To call mosMainbody on the “main” page or not (i.e. to output the “main” page completely or to keep modules only)
3. A capability to transform page to the utf-8 encoding (for it the library iconv is necessary).
4. Completely set up head-part of the page:
- Joomla’s standard or simplified head block
- A capability to embed styles in the page instead of using separate file
- Set up of xml-head and doctype-head
5. A choice of content-type heading: text/html or text/xhtml.
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